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How $15M Democracy Programs For Pakistan Became Part Of US COVID Relief Bill
Published: December 27, 2020
Recently, American lawmakers voted on a multi-trillion dollar government funding package that included a $900 billion COVID-19 relief bill. The interesting part it that the bill includes $15 million Democracy Programs and $10 million Gender Programs for Pakistan. What these programs would exactly do is another tricky question only those who managed to read the mammoth 5,593 pages bill in 2 hours could answer.
How $15M Democracy Programs For Pakistan Became Part Of US COVID Relief Bill
American lawmakers who recently voted on a multi-trillion dollar government funding package that included a $900 billion COVID-19 relief bill were given only a couple of hours for review by the congressional aides.
23 Dec 2020
Tuesday on Fox News Channel’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” host Tucker Carlson criticized Congress for the $2.3 trillion COVID-19 relief bill for millions going to international priorities and mocking it for the $600 in stimulus.
Transcript as follows:
CARLSON: Relief is finally here after tense negotiations and multiple rounds of televised theatrics, the Congress has passed a definitive spending bill. It is 5,593 pages long and it amounts to $2.3 trillion. That includes nearly a trillion in COVID relief.
All of it comes right from the U.S. Treasury, which is busy printing it right now. That’s a lot of money.
On the other hand, there’s a lot of need. Thanks in part to government lockdowns, more than a hundred million Americans are out of the workforce tonight. One in six restaurants is closed. Huge parts of the retail sector are in tatters.
what i liked about the will children health insurance funded for next ten years. that s really important. $250 million for democracy programs in russia and sanctions in russia. that got passed and nobody saw that i thought that was probably a very good thing. but i think republican voters have to ask themselves they voted for a republican house and republican senate and republican president and they are still not getting what they want. so, in this 2018 election for the midterm, they should ask themselves should they be voting for republicans or should they be voting for libertarians or should they be sending a message to republicans and not voting at all or voting for even democrats? that s what the republicans should be asking themselves. laura: eric, i want to go to you on this. i hear a lot of spinning. a lot of spinning. the military needed a raids. we alraids a raise. every time reend up mortgaging our children s future. all we need is we hey need the military. of course we n